Engine/Views/SystemViews

The Spotlight

The spotlight area is a new addition to v1.0 of Elgg. This area can be found towards the bottom of Elgg pages, directly above the footer. In its default state, the spotlight just points to a few resources to help those who have just installed Elgg.

The idea behind this spotlight area was to provide a context sensitive space where you can add help files, tutorial, hints and tips and so on about any particular feature within Elgg.

Plugins populating the spotlight

The spotlight content is context sensitive, therefore it is possible for plugins to create their own content to populate this space. All you need to do as a plugin author is create the following view within your plugin:

plugin_name/views/default/spotlight/plugin_name.php

and populate it with the content you would like users of your plugin to access.

Overwriting the default spotlight

If you would like to overwrite the default spotlight content then you need to go to this file:

html/views/default/spotlight/default.php